The Daily Mishnah with Benedict

Playing games with intention and situation and knowledge. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Leaving the shabbat boundary, involuntarily? By ship or kidnapping or mental breakdown? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Two days or one? The Mishnah shifts from Eruvin into Rosh HaShanah! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Playing in time and space - letting us go further on Shabbat. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Finally, in Chapter 3, we learn how make an eruv! Or, at least, where we can make it - in a cemetery? And what we can make it out of - bread and salt? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Wells and roads and area calculations, with more on creating private spaces. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Bulls and cows and wells. Watering animals and creating private spaces. For a source sheet, look here:   https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Camping in the desert and games with geometry. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Poles, beams and mathematics. Did the rabbis know the value of Pi and can you write a legal document on a cow? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Poles, beams and bricks. Psychological boundaries between the public and the private. For the source sheet, with photos, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

The tractate of Eruvin begins with definitions of "private"and "public" which are, intriguingly, slightly different from the legal definitions of "private" and "public" that we would recognise today. For the source sheet, with its illustrations, look here: https://tinyurl.com/EruvinSources For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

The tractate of Shabbat closes with a discussion of acts which are required for the purposes of a mitzvah but are not, strictly speaking, acts of creation in line with the 39 archetypal categories of "work" outlined in Chapter 7. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Taking care of our animals on shabbat! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

As we approach the end of the tractate of Shabbat, we consider questions of life and death. Interestingly, the tractate of Berachot does the same at its close. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Business on shabbat? Check out activities which are close to the edge. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Water, water! More questions on the use of water on Shabbat, for cooling, heating or bathing. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Liquids! Squeezing fruit, letting it ooze, breaking a jug to get out the contents, using hot water to heat up food. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Moving stones on Shabbat? Anyone interested in picking up a a stone to throw it on Shabbat should definitely learn this Mishnah! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Moving stuff around on Shabbat. Feeding animals. Pressing clothes. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Making food on Shabbat. Filtering. Setting up gear. Sorting. Feeding animals. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Circumcision on shabbat? What if we get the day wrong or circumcise the wrong baby? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Circumcision on shabbat? What if we need to bathe the baby? Or make a fire to forge the knife? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat   For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Clearing out space that we need on Shabbat - for guests or for Torah study equally. Giving birth. Circumcision. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

More about moving and using stuff on Shabbat! Broken things, things that aren't even a thing. What can we do? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Moving and using stuff on Shabbat! What can we do? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat . For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  .